Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced psychologist to work with our Mental Health Liaison team in North Middlesex University Hospital. You will lead on the provision of psychology input to clients referred to the team via A&E, MHCAS and the wards. The role will draw on psychology skills across mental and physical health. You will work closely with a multi-disciplinary staff group and will have responsibility for Clinical Associate Psychologists and/or Assistant Psychologists. You may also be responsible for qualified psychological therapists undertaking work within or linked to the liaison service and trainee clinical psychologists.

Main duties of the job
Your primary duties will involve assessment, formulation and designing short-term interventions. You also offer structured and regular consultation to colleagues drawing from psychological processes and theories to help consider a client's presentation. You will also lead on service development and developing short-term psychological interventions that may be offered by non-psychology colleagues and implementing outcome measures.

About us
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.

Our Five-Year Strategy:

• We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
• With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
• We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
• We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.

Why NLFT?

• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network

In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.

Band: Band 8b
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Salary: £72,719 to £83,505 a year per annum including HCAS (pro-rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time
Reference number: 455-NLFT-8408373

Job responsibilities

• To oversee the provision of specialist psychological assessments of service users referred to the North Middlesex University Mental Health Liaison Team based upon the appropriate use, interpretation and integration of complex data from a variety of sources including psychological and neuropsychological tests, self-report measures, rating scales, direct and indirect structured observations and semi-structured interviews with clients, family members and others involved in the clients care.
• To formulate and implement plans for the formal psychological treatment and/or management of a clients mental health problems or behavioural difficulties based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the clients problems, and employing methods based upon evidence of efficacy, across the full range of care settings.
• To be responsible for implementing a range of psychological interventions for individuals, carers, families and groups, within and across teams employed individually and in synthesis, adjusting and refining psychological formulations drawing upon different explanatory models and maintaining a number of provisional hypotheses.
• To evaluate and make decisions about treatment options taking into account both theoretical and therapeutic models and highly complex factors concerning historical and developmental processes that have shaped the individual, family or group.
• To be an active member of the senior leadership for Unplanned Care Psychology group to contribute to the Unplanned Care Psychology strategy.

Essential

• Completion of a clinical supervision training (short course) sufficient to be able to supervise doctoral trainees
• Must have Experience of working in an MHCAS and mental health liaison service
• Must have a doctorate in applied psychology

Desirable

• Pre-qualification training and qualifications in research methodology, staff training and/or other fields of applied psychology.
• Well-developed knowledge of the theory and practice or specialized psychological therapies in specific difficult to treat groups (e.g. personality disorder, dual diagnosis, people with additional disabilities)
• Experience of representing psychology within the context of multidisciplinary care.
• Knowledge of legislation (MHA) in relation to the client group and mental health.
• A commitment to the evaluation of services, enthusiasm for both multi-professional and uni-professional audit

Employer details
Employer name: North London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: North Middlesex University Hospital, London, Sterling Way, London, London, N18 1QX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
Associate Director of Psychological Professions, Chantal Scaillet, c.scaillet@nhs.net

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.